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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Pioneering Garretts: Breaking the Barriers for Women

The Pioneering Garretts: Breaking the Barriers for Women

Glynn, Jenifer

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1847252079
ISBN13: 9781847252074
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Mar 15 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.43 Depth: 9.34
Language: English

'My strength lies in the extra amount of daring which I have as a family endowment. All Garretts have it' - Elizabeth Garrett 1864
No other family was as active, and successful, on so many fronts as the Garretts. Their ideas and leadership had enormous influence. They saw how education for women was a basic need, and how suffrage would be worthwhile as a right in itself and as a route to much else. There were six sisters, the three most prominent being Elizabeth (Garrett Anderson); Millicent (Garrett Fawcett); and Agnes, who with her cousin Rhoda started an Arts and Crafts architectural business. The other sisters, although less prominent, were closely involved with the radical interests of the family. Jenifer Glynn's real achievement in this thoroughly researched and eminently readable biography, is to show how the Garrett sisters inspired, encouraged and supported each other in their common goals.

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